I wouldn't answer this question if I were the OP.

Neither would I, but they're very good questions. If I was OP, I'd want to make sure my answers were watertight.

Honestly this. I agree the registrar can be shitbag; but having a method to request token access but also blocking the OP here even though he claims he never actually had real data on his site, but was planning on using the legally-requested-token to populate it in the future? That smells of half the story i think.

My guess being OP was probably running the service for months under-the-radar via scraping prior, and they didn't notice him until he requested the token to help clean up his data. Else they punished him before* he actually did anything wrong? yea, just smells.